Which characters deserve their own show?
Is it just me, or did this series have some AWESOME characters in it? Some of them, I feel, deserved much more than just a single hour-long episode to appear in; I'd have gladly watched their continued adventures! Of course, such a thing will, sadly, never happen, but if it did, who would you want to see get their own spinoff?
Here are my favorite characters from the show:
-Ida Teeter (played in the episode Sick Girl by Angela Bettis)
-Mr. Chaney (played in the episode The V Word by Michael Ironside)
-Wheeler (played in the episode Pick Me Up by Michael Moriarty)
-Harold Thompson (played in the episode Family by George Wendt)
-Edgar Allen Poe (played in the episode The Black Cat by Jeffrey Coombs)
Just for fun, I've also been trying to imagine what each character's spin-off series would look like. Here's what I came up with:
-Edgar Allen Poe moves into Highberger House, meets some of the crazy people there, pretty soon his own stories start coming to life.
-Wheeler's adventures on the road. He continues his killing spree, but also starts down other serial killers (just like he did in Pick Me Up). Sort of like a cross between CHiPs and Dexter. And maybe a little bit of Buffy thrown in, because Mr. Chaney would be great as the villain of the series. Harold would probably show up at some point, too.
-Ida... well, there I drew kind of a blank. Though it would be cool to see Ida caught up in the story of The Screwfly Solution.
Surely I cannot be the only one who thought about this! These characters were simply irresistible! So superbly conceived, written and acted! What a wonderful show overall!